TOPEKA — Most members of the Kansas State Board of Education voted to increase their pay to equal state legislators, which was commonplace until legislators doubled their pay this year, leaving board members behind. In a 9-1 vote on Tuesday, the board approved a request for around $126,000 ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission gave Evergy the go-ahead to build two natural gas plants and a new solar plant, over the objections of multiple parties. Evergy Kansas Central customers will see bills increase about 8.6% to build the new plants, KCC filings said. EKC, the ...
Kansas legislative leaders decided on Monday to give the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals an extra six months to reach deals with the state on potential new stadiums. The organizations now have until the end of the year to take advantage of a tax incentive package designed to lure the teams over ...
Kansas Republican Sen. Jerry Moran is hailing the passage of a budget bill that makes drastic cuts to Medicaid after he made changes that he said will protect Kansas hospitals from the effect of the cuts. But health care stakeholders argue it’s not enough to keep some state hospitals from ...
Dawn Buehler spent her childhood helping out on the family farm in De Soto, next to the Kansas River. But when her chores were done, the river beckoned. She and her family would canoe and fish. Sometimes they would camp on a sandbar. “You felt like you were in the last wild place in ...
Nearly half of the new $1 million salary for University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod will be paid with private funds, the Kansas Board of Regents told the Journal-World on Tuesday. All of the private funding will come from the KU Endowment Association, and will total $490,000 for the ...